Check out the video on www.andylohn.com - Erika giving me a haircut.

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The Des Moines Marathon is on 10/18/09 and I'm raising money for the American Cancer Society.

The details, along with some fun stuff (please vote) can be found here:
www.andylohn.com

Andy's American Cancer Society Page

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I’m currently training for the Des Moines Marathon on 10/18/09 and raising money for the American Cancer Society.

The details, along with some fun stuff (please vote) can be found here:
www.andylohn.com

Andy's American Cancer Society Page

Labels: Running

I listen to podcasts quite often and I really like this one. It's a bit crazy, but the quote that stuck with me was that this guy and his wife made a promise to each other not to go through life sleeping.

EndurancePlanet.com: "Friday, August 8, 2008
Breakaway Friday: What Would Lloyd Dobler Do?
Specs: 16 mins, 18 secs | 4.67 MB
Presented by: Silverman


When Joe Kurmaskie set out with his two young sons to cover four-thousand miles on a bike, he wore a shirt with the abbreviation WWLDD on the front. It stood for: What Would Lloyd Dobler Do? Today on Endurance Planet we hear an audio excerpt from Kurmaskie's book 'Momentum is Your Friend' in which he tries to live up to the high ideals of Dobler, a fictional character from the 80's film Say Anything.


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Labels: 15posts, Running

Today was the Minnewaska Triathlon. It was beautiful, calm day for it.

Here's the site
Here's a photo from last year

And here's the video from last year.

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Here's a terrible running story.
Erika and I went for a run the other night. We were only going to be together for 2 miles of it though. I was going to run for 13 or 14, so I had my ipod in my belt ready to play as soon as we split up.
As soon as we went our separate ways, I put on my head phones and pushed play. The song Umbrella by Rihanna came on. It's the only song I've ever bought from iTunes and it was over played with my buddies in Seattle, so it was kind of fun to start off listening to. After it was over, the next song was...Umbrella by Rihanna - I hit fast forward, the next song was Umbrella by Rihanna. Yep, all that I had on my ipod was one song - one song and 11 miles to go. I tried to figure out all the words, but I don't think I can still understand them. I also figured out that my external hard drive must not be hooked up since that was the only song I've purchased, that would be the only song on my C drive, everything else was on the external drive.
I heard Umbrella 24 times on that run - It's my most played song in iTunes.

Here's a link to the Wikipedia page that has all the info you'd ever want on it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_(song)

Here's the video on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4X7eFbP3u4
Here's a link to the lyrics - http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rihanna/umbrella.html

Labels: 15posts, Running

Here's a link to the official site - http://www.grandmasmarathon.com/

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If you don't know, Erika's a big biker. I saw this from one of my former coworker's blogs www.mattberan.com and thought I'd post it for her and because it's really cool.

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Congratulations to Silly Andy on a great run today in the Twin Cities 10 mile. Abbie, Erika and I got up early today and had a ball watching - even though it was hot and humid to just watch. Here are some photos...

TC10

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Erika and I ran our last running event of the year, I think, on Saturday and both set personal records and both got 3rd in our age groups - it was the AMS 10K sponsored by my work and for the United Way. It was really fun and challenging run with lots more hills than we remembered from last year. It was pretty cool to hear "In third place for the women, Erika Lohn."

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Here's Erika at the Minnewaska Triathlon in Glenwood, MN:

Labels: Photo_of_the_week, Running

Yesterday we did our first triathlon. It was in Glenwood, MN where we stayed at the Granberg's cabin. It was fun - we all hated the swim part, but, had a really good time. Check out the video I put together for it.

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Stuck on the roof

Here's one of my funniest running stories. I found it as I was cleaning old web stuff out.

Sunday morning, 6/12/05, I go for a run. I've got my under armor running clothes on and I get back and I talked myself into weed whipping as I was all sweaty and it needed to be done. Then, since I'm all dirty, I decide to clean my gutters.
I get my ladder and climb on to the roof with my trusty homemade gutter cleaner (a four foot broom handle with a gutter elbow screwed to it and cut open on the top). I get that all done and I grab the hose, turn it on and climb back up the ladder to really wash out the down spouts good. I do two of the downspouts and when I go to the third, the hose hits the ladder and knocks it down. I'm stuck on the roof! I can't see any other houses from my house and nobody was going to be visiting me the rest of the day - no cell phone with me either. What could I do....
I determined I could jump on to the deck approximately 7 feet down. This would risk not only my gutters and but also my ankles and with my first marathon a less than week away, I wasn't going to do that. So I grabbed the hose and lassoed a branch.
Now for the funny/embarrassing piece...I was in my good running clothes and I didn't want to risk ripping them on a sharp edge, so since I can't see any other houses from my house, I took them off and Tarzaned down in my tightie whities.
It worked out real well, right after I got down I ran in and grabbed my phone and took this photo. If things didn't work out that well, I would have had a lot of explaining to do if I would have been found unconscious and only in my underwear on the deck.

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Upcoming Running/Biking/Triathlon Events

We've got a few fun events coming up that we are planning on participating in:

Get In Gear 10k - Saturday April 28, 2007 - Minnehaha Park, MN
http://www.getingear10k.com/

This will be the first time for both Erika and I in this - we've each done one 10K before

Minnesota Ironman Bike Ride - Sunday April 29, 2007 - Lakeville, MN

http://www.ironmanbikeride.org/

We did the 62 mile course last year in the rain and I think we are going to do the same as last year.

Buffalo Triathlon - Sunday June 3, 2007 - Buffalo, MN

http://www.tribuff.com/

This will be our first time for us in this as well - if I can talk Erika into it. We haven't done any triathlons before and the swimming part scares both of us. But what the heck..

Grandma's Marathon - Saturday June 16, 2007 - Duluth, MN
http://www.grandmasmarathon.com/
I've done this twice before and swore I'd never do it again, but I got the itch again. Erika is training for her first 1/2 marathon and doing awesome.

Labels: Running